To: RedStateRocker
Sometimes one gets a little smelly taking out the trash. He was brutal and bloody but sometimes sometimes nasty work has to be done. I much prefer it when it is done by the people in their own country rather than by us.Pinochet bashers are the sort who probably couldn't admit that our Founding Fathers didn't establish our Republic just by writing and signing a few flowery documents, they actually had to kill (gasp!) more than a few of their fellow Tory/Loyalist countrymen.
51 posted on
12/10/2006 10:27:08 AM PST by
tarheelswamprat
(So what if I'm not rich? So what if I'm not one of the beautiful people? At least I'm not smart...)
To: tarheelswamprat
It is, to me, a fine and dangerous line in what we excuse (or do) in the name of combating evil.
84 posted on
12/10/2006 11:15:19 AM PST by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
To: tarheelswamprat
Pinochet bashers are the sort who probably couldn't admit that our Founding Fathers didn't establish our Republic just by writing and signing a few flowery documents, they actually had to kill (gasp!) more than a few of their fellow Tory/Loyalist countrymen.It's one thing to defend Pinochet, it's another to libel the Founding Fathers by comparing them to a tinpot Latin American dictator who tortured civilians to death, and who established a dictatorship in what had been Latin America's oldest and strongest democracy.
Was electing Allende a very bad mistake? Certainly. Could Pinochet have been even more worse? Absolutely. But I don't think either of those lets Pinochet off the hook. He cheated the hangman by dying in his bed.
99 posted on
12/10/2006 11:29:06 AM PST by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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